Georgiana Marion Craik

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illustrated.1860 Excerpt: ... was anything more than a headache; I
hope it was not. I daresay I shall enjoy myself here pretty well
during the rest of the time that I stay; but still, as I said, I'm
not sure that I would not rather be at home, for though I like
Alice, I don't much like either Eobert or Richard; and they play so
roughly sometimes that I can't bear to have anything to do with
them. I liked them a great deal better when I didn't know them so
well. Alice doesn't seem to mind it; but I don't know what I should
do if I had to live always with two such rude big boys; and they
don't care a bit more now for being rude to me than to her. They
will make us play with them, whether we like or not; and they play
so roughly, just as if we were boys like themselves. I used always
to think that it would be so nice to have a brother, but I'm sure I
don't now, if he was to be like Richard or Robert Wigan--as I
suppose he would be, for Alice says that all big boys are
disagreeable, and she ought to know, for she sees so many of her
brothers' schoolfellows. She says she would give anything to have
sisters instead of brothers; and I am sure if I was her I should
say so too. Friday, August Id.--I don't know what it is that is the
matter with mamma. Papa wrote again to-day, and he still says that
she is not very well; but he seems to have written in a great
hurry, for it is only five or six lines, and he never says what it
is that ails her. I can't think how he could forget. Mr. Wigan too
had a letter from papa, but he didn't read any of it aloud, and
only said, when I was wondering what could be the matter with
mamma, that papa had also mentioned to him that she wasn't well;
and he couldn't tell me anything more. But I don't like staying
here when mamma is ill, and after breakfast I told Mrs....